Diet of sympatric pattern classes C and E of the parthenogenetic whiptail lizard Aspidoscelis tesselata at Sumner Lake, De Baca County, New Mexico

Southwestern Naturalist

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 555-560

  Paulissen, Mark A ^a,d   Walker, James M ^b   Taylor, Harry L ^c  

^a MCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^c REGIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NORTHEASTERN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACRIDIDAE; ARCHAEORRHYNCHA; ASPIDOSCELIS TESSELATA; CICADIDAE; CNEMIDOPHORUS TESSELATUS; COLEOPTERA; ISOPTERA; PECOS; SCARABAEIDAE; SQUAMATA; TEIIDAE; TETTIGONIIDAE;

EID: 33846565530     PISSN: 00384909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1894/0038-4909(2006)51[555:DOSPCC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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